Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Qingjun Zhang is a Chinese space engineer whose professional work has focused on satellite remote sensing, spacecraft telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) and communications, and spacecraft systems engineering. Born in May 1969 in Tongshan, Jiangsu Province, he received his bachelor’s degree in radio engineering from North China Electric Power University in 1990, his master’s degree in electric power systems and automation in 1993, and his Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2006. He joined the Fifth Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, now the China Academy of Space Technology, in 1993 and spent more than a decade working on China’s manned spaceflight programme. He served as technical head of the TT&C and communications subsystem for Shenzhou 1, Director of the overall design office, and Deputy Chief Designer of Shenzhou 6. He subsequently served as Chief Designer and General Director of several major remote-sensing satellite programmes, including the ZY-1 (CBERS) resource satellite, HY-2 ocean dynamic environment monitoring satellite, GF-3 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, an ocean salinity detection satellite, and the Ludi Tance-4 high-orbit SAR satellite. He is currently Chief Designer and General Director of the high-orbit SAR satellite programme at the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering and General Director of the Remote Sensing Satellite Division of the China Academy of Space Technology. An Academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, he was named one of China’s Ten Outstanding Young People in 2005 and has received the National May 1 Labour Medal, the Qian Xuesen Outstanding Contribution Award, and other national honours. His career has combined spacecraft systems engineering with the development and management of more than 20 remote-sensing

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Luo Zhang is a Chinese physician and researcher in rhinology and allergology whose professional work has focused on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of chronic nasal diseases, particularly allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis. Born in 1969, he received his bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine from Capital Medical University in 1993 and his doctorate in medicine in 2000, followed by a doctorate in management from Tianjin University and postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School from 2001 to 2003. He has spent his academic career at Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, where he became President and Deputy Party Secretary in 2020. He also serves as Director of the Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, the Beijing Key Laboratory of Rhinology, the Beijing Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, and the National Engineering Research Centre for Innovative Drugs for Allergic Diseases. A Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor and recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, he has held leadership positions in the Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, the Chinese Society of Allergy, the Otolaryngologists Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and the International Society of Inflammation and Allergy of the Nose. He has also served on the Executive Council of the World Allergy Organization and as Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Allergy. His honours include two Second Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Awards and the title of National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Yong Zeng is a distinguished Chinese scholar of management science and financial engineering whose research and professional work have focused on economic forecasting and decision-making, financial investment and engineering, and investment and pricing of technological innovation. Born in October 1963, he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial automation and systems engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and his Ph.D. in management science and engineering from the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, in 2000. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral research in finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After joining the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 1988, he served as Dean of its School of Management and Economics, Vice President, and President from 2018 to 2024. He is currently Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences of the university. He has also served on national and professional bodies in management and financial engineering and as Associate Editor of the China Journal of Finance. His academic and professional honours include the State Council Special Allowance, recognition under the national Ten Thousand Talents Programme, and the title of Outstanding Young Scientist awarded by the former Ministry of Electronics Industry. His career has combined research in financial engineering with management education, university leadership, and the reform of engineering talent development.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Dongxiao Niu is a distinguished Chinese power management scientist whose research and professional work have focused on intelligent management based on big data, power operation management, technical economics and management of the electric power sector, and green and low-carbon development of energy systems. Born on 15 October 1962 in Suxian, Anhui Province, he received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering, now Wuhan University, in 1982, his M.S. in Mathematics from Hebei Normal University in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Technical Economics and Management from North China Electric Power University in 2002. He has pursued most of his academic career at North China Electric Power University, where he currently serves as Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Vice Chairman of the University Academic Committee. In 2007, he was selected as a national-level candidate of the New Century Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project and as a recipient of the Ministry of Education’s New Century Outstanding Talent Programme. He has also received the State Council Special Allowance, the title of Hebei Provincial Teaching Master, the Third China Management Science Award in the Academic Category, and the Third China Technical Economics Outstanding Contribution Award. He currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Zhiying Ma is a distinguished Chinese agronomist whose research and professional work have focused on cotton genetics, disease-resistance breeding, and molecular improvement. Born in October 1958 in Xinle, Hebei Province, he received his M.S. in Agronomy from Hebei Agricultural University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Huazhong Agricultural University in 1998. He has pursued his academic career at Hebei Agricultural University, where he has served as Dean of the College of Agronomy and Vice President of the University and currently serves as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He is also Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of North China Crop Improvement and Regulation and Director of the Key Laboratory of North China Crop Germplasm Resources of the Ministry of Education. A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, the National May 1st Labour Medal, and the National Teaching Master Award, he received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Innovation in 2015, the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award in 2020, and the 7th China Agricultural Talent Award in 2021.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Yalin Lu is a distinguished Chinese materials physicist whose research and professional work have focused on quantum functional materials, synchrotron radiation science, terahertz science, and advanced photon technologies. He was selected in the first batch of the National Overseas High-Level Talent Recruitment Programme and appointed as a National Specially Appointed Expert in 2008. He received the First Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2006 and the Anhui Provincial Huangshan Friendship Award. He currently serves as Distinguished Chair Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Distinguished Researcher and Director of the Engineering and Technology Division at Hefei Laboratory, Doctoral Supervisor, and Director of the Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President of USTC, Director of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, and Leader of the Overall Expert Group for the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Major Research Programme “Frontier Research Based on Large Scientific Facilities”. He was also elected as one of the first Foreign Members of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Daming He is a distinguished Chinese hydrogeographer and hydroecologist whose research has contributed to the study of international rivers, transboundary water resources, and ecological security in Asia. Born on 18 December 1958 in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, he received his B.S. in Terrestrial Hydrology from Chengdu University of Science and Technology in 1982, his M.S. in Physical Geography from Nanjing University in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Beijing Normal University in 2001. He began his professional career as an Assistant Engineer at the Kunming Hydropower Survey and Design Institute of the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power from 1982 to 1985. In 1988, he joined the Yunnan Institute of Geography, where he served as Deputy Director from 1996 and attained the rank of Research Professor in 1997. He joined Yunnan University in July 2000 as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor and, in October of the same year, founded the Asian International Rivers Center, serving as its Director. His subsequent institutional leadership included service as Vice Dean of the School of Life Sciences from 2003 to 2005, Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences from 2006 to 2012, and Director of the Institute of International Rivers and Ecological Security from 2012 to 2015. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor at Yunnan University, Director of the Asian International Rivers Center, and Director of the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Ecological Security.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Zhijie Liu is a distinguished Chinese structural biologist whose research and professional work have focused on G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structural biology, membrane protein crystallography, and structure-based drug design. He currently serves as Executive Director of the iHuman Institute, Dean of Dadao College, and Professor at the School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He previously served as a Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor under the “Hundred Talents Programme” at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance since 2012, he has been recognised as a Shanghai Leading Talent and has received the WuXi AppTec Life Chemistry Research Award (2012), the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award as first completer (2020), and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology Progress (2022). He has also been named an Outstanding Doctoral Supervisor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on three occasions. Professor Liu currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Chinese Biophysical Society, Executive Council Member of the Chinese Crystallographic Society, Council Member of the International Organization for Biological Crystallization (IOBCr) and the Asian Crystallographic Association, and Editorial Board Member of IUCrJ and the Journal of Molecular Biology.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Yibin Ying is a distinguished Chinese agricultural engineer whose research and professional work have focused on intelligent agricultural equipment, agricultural informatisation, and rapid non-destructive detection of the quality and safety of agricultural products and foods. Born in March 1964 in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province, he received his B.Eng. in Tractor Design and Manufacturing from Jiangsu Institute of Technology, now Jiangsu University, in 1984, his M.Sc. in Agricultural Mechanisation from Zhejiang Agricultural University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Mechanisation Engineering from Northeast Agricultural University in 1999. After teaching at Jiangsu Institute of Technology and Zhejiang Agricultural University, he joined Zhejiang University in 1998, where he subsequently served as Executive Dean of the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Deputy Director of the Division of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Executive Dean of Chu Kochen Honors College, Assistant to the President, and Vice President. From 2017, he served as President of Zhejiang A&F University. He is currently Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Zhejiang University and Founder and Head of its Innovation Team for Intelligent Bio-industry Equipment. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Association for Science and Technology and holds leadership positions in professional organisations concerned with agricultural engineering and machinery. His honours include a Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professorship, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the National Distinguished Teacher title, and recognition as a National Model Teacher. He is also a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Bing Liao is a distinguished Chinese materials scientist whose research has focused on bio-based organic materials, functional polymers, and organic functional materials. Born in February 1965, he received his Ph.D. in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China. His career has combined materials research with science administration and institutional development. He served as Deputy Director of the Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Cellulose Chemistry, and successively as Deputy General Manager, General Manager, Chairman, and Party Secretary of CAS Guangzhou Chemistry Co., Ltd. He subsequently served as President and Party Secretary of the Guangdong Academy of Sciences. He also held positions including Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Association for Science and Technology and Deputy Director of the Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, he was elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020.